ISO 17889-1 certification
March 31, 2024
A new and important milestone has been added to the certifications obtained by Florim over the years.
In addition to being B Corp certified, ISO 9001 for quality management, ISO 14001 for environmental management, ISO 50001 for energy management, and ISO 45001 for health and safety, the company boasts over 20 international product certifications, earning the top spot among the most certified companies in the ceramic district.
Florim’s certification framework has been expanded with the new ISO 17889-1, which defines a set of international parameters to objectively evaluate tile performance against the environmental, economic and social aspects covered by the standard throughout the product life cycle.
The ISO 17889-1 standard therefore supports greater transparency regarding the criteria and performance assessed under the standard.
The benefits of ISO 17889-1
In the global market for building and construction materials, there are many environmental product labels and building rating systems, with application criteria that differ from country to country. The international standard ISO 17889-1 promotes a standard that simplifies the overall framework, standardizing the evaluation and scoring criteria.
In this way, ceramic companies worldwide have a methodology for assessing their environmental performance across the production chain and the practices implemented at company level. Designers, contractors and end customers also have a verifiable and objective tool for identifying tiles that comply with the requirements of the standard.
How ISO 17889-1 works
The evaluation system consists of 38 indicators, divided between mandatory and voluntary, and a multi-rating scoring system.
15 mandatory requirements establish the minimum prerequisites set by the standard. If a product does not meet all these criteria, it cannot qualify for certification.
- 23 voluntary requirements assign a score from 100 to 130 according to different levels of product and process performance.
A tile conforms to the ISO 17889-1 standard only if it meets all the mandatory requirements and achieves 117.5 points in the voluntary requirements. From a research by Ceramics of Italy, it emerges that Italian production exceeds this threshold, recording an average score of 124.
Florim obtained the certification after the inspection verification by the German body TUV, based on information collected through laboratory tests, inspections, audits, etc., attesting the product’s conformity to the standard with an excellent score: 129 points out of a maximum of 130 for 6 mm thick slabs and 128 points for all other materials.